2014 UbD Training

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Understanding by Design Training - Curriculum Review Week

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Overall Outcome: Participants will use their knowledge of the Understanding by Design process to create at least one complete unit for their content area and grade level.
Presentation

Day 1: Stage 1

Outcomes
  • Participants will define and develop an understanding of learning principles, standards, yearlong curriculum or course maps, and unpacking individually and in relationship to each other.
  • Participants will define and develop an understanding of Understanding by Design, curriculum, Stage 1 of UbD (desired outcomes), enduring understandings, and essential questions individually, in relationship to each other, and in relationship to learning principles, standards, yearlong curriculum or course maps, and unpacking.

Agenda

8:00-8:30 Overview - Jason Van Heukelum, Auditorium

8:30-9:45 Learning Principles, Michael Williams and Tara Nattrass, Media Center

9:45-10:00 Break

10:00-10:30 What is UbD?

10:30-12:00 Unpacking Standards, Michael Williams and Tara Nattrass, Media Center

Social Studies Yearlong Curriculum Maps

12:00-1:00 Lunch

Breakout Teams
1:00-3:30 Social Studies Teams - Stage 1: Desired Results, Tara Nattrass, Media Center

Stage 1: Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
Close Read of Stage 1 (pages 18, 23, and 29)
  1. Read with a pencil in hand, annotating the text by underlining or highlighting key words and phrases - anything that strikes you as surprising or significant, or that raises questions - as well as making notes in the margins.
  2. Look for patterns in the things you've noticed about the text - repetitions, contradictions, or similarities.
  3. Ask questions about the patterns you've noticed - especially how and why. To do so, look back at the text and see what else is going on, paying close attention to the evidence, asking questions, formulating interpretations in order to reason toward own ideas.

Unpacking and Stage 1

Resources for Reference when Writing Stage 1 Components

Unit Template
K-5 Unit Template

1:00-3:30 Visual Arts, Arts, and Chorus Teams - Course Maps, Michael Williams, 909

6-12 Course Map Template


Day 2: Stage 2

Outcomes:
  • Participants will define and develop an understanding of Stage 2 of UbD (assessment evidence) individually and in relationship to learning principles, standards, yearlong curriculum or course maps, unpacking, Stage 1 of UbD (desired outcomes), enduring understandings, and essential questions.
  • Participants will understand the purpose of assessment.
  • Participants will be able to explain how performance tasks are used to evaluate student progress.
  • Participants will know and be able to select the four types of assessments that best provide the evidence needed to measure student learning.

Agenda
Breakout Teams
8:00-10:00 Social Studies Teams - Stage 1: Desired Results, Jessica Garner, Media Center
  • Continue to write

8:00-10:00 Visual Arts, Arts, and Chorus Teams - Stage 1: Desired Results, Michael Williams, 909

Stage 1: Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
Close Read of Stage 1 (pages 18, 23, and 29)
  1. Read with a pencil in hand, annotating the text by underlining or highlighting key words and phrases - anything that strikes you as surprising or significant, or that raises questions - as well as making notes in the margins.
  2. Look for patterns in the things you've noticed about the text - repetitions, contradictions, or similarities.
  3. Ask questions about the patterns you've noticed - especially how and why. To do so, look back at the text and see what else is going on, paying close attention to the evidence, asking questions, formulating interpretations in order to reason toward own ideas.

Unpacking and Stage 1

Resources for Reference when Writing Stage 1 Components

Unit Template

6-12 Unit Template

10:00-10:15 Break

All Teams
10:15-12:15 Assessments, Michael Williams and Tara Nattrass, Media Center
Key Assessment Concepts

Lunch: 12:15-1:15

All Teams
1:15-3:15 Assessments, Michael Williams and Tara Nattrass, Media Center

Quality Assessment Evaluation
Assessment Alignment

3:15-3:30 Wrap-up, Michael Williams and Tara Nattrass, Media Center




Day 3: Stages 2 and 3

Outcomes:
  • Participants will define and develop an understanding of Stage 3 of UbD (learning plan) individually and in relationship to learning principles, standards, yearlong curriculum or course maps, unpacking, Stage 1 of UbD (desired outcomes), enduring understandings, and essential questions.

Agenda
All Teams
8:00-10:00 Assessments, Michael Williams, Media Center
  • Finalize Assessments for Unit 1

10:00-12:00 Learning Plan, Michael Williams and Tara Nattrass, Media Center
Potential Resources

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:30 Learning Plan, Michael Williams and Tara Nattrass, Media Center
  • Develop Learning Plan for Unit 1


Day 4: Unit Writing

Outcomes:
  • Participants will finalize at least one unit using all three stages of Understanding by Design.

Agenda
Breakout Teams
8:00-12:00 Social Studies Teams - Finalize Unit 1 and Begin Unit 2, Tara Nattrass, Media Center

8:00-12:00 Visual Arts, Arts, and Chorus Teams - Unit Writing, Michael Williams, Media Center

12:00-1:00 Lunch

Breakout Teams
1:00-2:45 Social Studies Teams - Continue Unit 2, Tara Nattrass, Media Center

1:00-2:45 Visual Arts, Arts, and Chorus Teams - Unit Writing, Michael Williams, Media Center

2:45-3:15 Finalize Google Docs

3:15-3:30 Wrap-Up